Subhi Bey Barakat

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Subhi Bey Barakat al-Khalidi
صبحي بك بركات الخالدي
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1st President of the Syrian Federation and the State of Syria under the French Mandate
In office
29 June 1922 [1] – 21 December 1925
Preceded byFaisal I (As King of Syria)
Succeeded byTaj al-Din al-Hasani
4th Prime Minister of Syria
In office
26 January 1925 – 21 December 1925
Preceded byJamil al-Ulshi
Succeeded byAhmad Nami
Personal details
Born
Suphi Bereket[2]

1889
Antakya, Ottoman Empire
Died1939 (aged 49–50)
Antakya, Turkey
Political partyIndependent

Subhi Bey Barakat al-Khalidi or Suphi Bereket (Arabic: صبحي بك بركات الخالدي‎ Turkish: Suphi Bereket; 1889, Antioch – 1939, Turkey) was a Syrian politician from Antakya,[3] born into a family of Turkish origin.[4] During the French Mandate of Syria, he was the president of the Syrian Federation from 29[5] June 1922 (the day following its creation) to 31 December 1924 and the State of Syria from 1 January 1925 to 21 December 1925).[3]

Part of the reason the French supported his candidacy as president of the Syrian Federation was because as neither a native of Damascus nor a very strong Arabic speaker (Turkish was his mother tongue), he did not seem to pose a nationalist threat to French rule.[6]

Initially he was a partner of Ibrahim Hanano in his revolt. He played a major role in merging the States of Aleppo and Damascus into one state,[citation needed] and he quit the presidency of Syria in 1925 in protest to the French position regarding the fate of the Alawite and Druze States,[citation needed] which France refused to add to Syria because it feared that might endanger the independence of the newly created Lebanon.

Personal life[]

Barakat was married to Halide; their daughter Süheyla Mukbile married Turkish politician Refik Koraltan and Zehra married Turkish politician Vahit Melih Halefoğlu.[7][2]

See also[]

  • French Mandate of Syria

References[]

  1. ^ [1]; [2].
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Cıvaoğlu, Güneri (2016). "Aile ağacında DNA". Milliyet. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Moubayed, Sami M. (2006). Steel & silk: men and women who shaped Syria 1900-2000. Bridge between the cultures series. Cune Press. pp. 200–202. ISBN 978-1-885942-40-1. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  4. ^ Bidwell, Robin (1998), "Barakat, Subhi (c.1886-)", Dictionary Of Modern Arab History, Routledge, p. 68, ISBN 1136162917, BARAKAT, Subhi (c. 1886-) Syrian Head of State. He was born into a Turkish family in Antioch and was educated in the local secondary school.
  5. ^ Arrêtés Nos. 1, 2 & 3, Bulletin hebdomadaire des actes administratifs du Haut-Commissariat (8 October 1922), p. 268; [3].
  6. ^ Khoury, Philip (1987). Syria and the French Mandate: the Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 127.
  7. ^ "Vefat: Oğuzhan Koraltan". Hurriyet. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
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